Technology During The Cold War

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{draw:g} 10/22/2009 {draw:frame} {draw:rect} Table of Contents Introduction Technology has become a thriving source of finance and communication throughout the world. The ability to integrate technology into every society will allow for all people to have equal advantages and abilities to have a part in this finance and communication. When you think about the kinds of technologies that would be integrated, don’t only think of the obvious technologies that U.S. citizen use every day, but also think about the ones that we have forgotten that mean every bit as much to us when they are taken away. An example of this would be electricity and the light bulb. The issue at hand currently has no international governing law. The proposal…show more content…
There are several significant events throughout history that show this fact. Some events may seem a little farfetched, considering the fact that in the U.S. we are far more technologically advanced then we typically think of. For some it is hard to believe that at one point the Americas were being globalized and given technologies that were strange for the natives. One such event would be the introduction of the horse into the lives of the Native Americans. This completely changed the way they did hunting and gathering. More recent events would be the Cold War, and the introduction of the computer and internet. These two events brought about major change throughout the world. The Cold War, while being a fight to prove greatness between two superpowers, brought new advances that would expand the world’s view of possibilities. The computer and internet would successfully create instant communication. These advances though have not been spread to everyone. India still uses oxen to till their farms. There are tribes in Africa that have never even seen a computer. It was in the 1970s that the technologies would be spread to third world countries. People began to challenge “technological capabilities in the third world” (Technological Capability in the Third world, pg. 5). As we move into present day, there have been many studies and attempts to integrate technologies into third world technology.…show more content…
The current cost of spreading technology has fallen. This will help countries be able to afford the technologies in the future and it will keep the countries from going into so much debt to receive the technologies in the first place. In Rethinking Development Economics it was stated that “information is easier to access and the cost of transmitting it has fallen to very low levels” (Rethinking Development Economics, p. 277). Undeveloped countries are able to find greater interdependence. They no longer find themselves having to rely on big brother countries, or flailing in the mud, because no one is aiding them. Undeveloped nations will be able to think and do thinks for themselves. The technologies will be reachable. Today, “new materials are revolutionizing sectors as diverse as construction and communications. Advanced manufacturing technologies have altered long-standing patterns of productivity and employment. [The improvements in] air and sea transportation [have] greatly accelerated the worldwide flow of people and goods” to the greater expanses of the globe (Globalization of Technology: International Perspectives, p. 1). With all of the abilities of the new technologies, undeveloped countries will be back in the game, so to
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